Newsletter 136
Content
Action of the Week
- Submit your ideas about the draft climate change bill
National News and Events
- Be involved in the biggest Medsin event of the decade!
- Want to get involved in the Arms Trade campaign?
- Global Health Day and Birthday Party
- Follow up from a GHC workshop on Palestine
International News and Events
- Tobacco Campaign, get involved
- Global Development Course
Website and News
The website is for YOUR events being held by YOUR branches, projects and campaigns. It is really, really easy to submit events and news, so please do, and let everyone know what wonderful things you are up to!
Action of the Week
The draft climate change bill is up for consultation until June and there are various websites with links to allow you to quickly submit your ideas about it, such as Friends of the Earth and World Development Movement
Both these websites recommend some basic ways in which the bill could be improved (more ambitious targets, inclusion of emissions from aviation and shipping, and yearly carbon budgets as opposed to the proposed 5 yearly).
You can also respond individually, not via another organisation's website, by filling downloading the consulation form on DEFRA's website and emailing it back to them, from here
National News and Events
Be involved in the biggest Medsin event of the decade!
As previously advertised in the newsletter Medsin is hosting the August Meeting of the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations this summer.
We're going to be welcoming up to 1000 medical students from around the globe for a week of learning, sharing and fun. If you're in Canterbury you'll have chance to meet people from upto 95 countries whilst attending training sessions, sharing ideas and planning campaigns. While the closing date for applications to be part of the delegation has now passed you can still be part of the organising team.
This is a great opportunity for you to be part of a fantastic team of hard working people. You'll be one of the people who makes this meeting happen. Without you there will be 1000 people who are wandering around lost and won't have any breakfast to eat in the morning!!
To apply please answer the questions which you will find here and send them to the Organising Committee by 18th May.
If you'd like any more information please email Ian
We hope to hear from you really soon, we're really excited about this conference and hope that as many Medsin members as possible can get involved too!
Want to get involved in the Arms Trade campaign?
This campaign was voted in at the SGA, and will be a priority campaign for 2007-08. If you're interested in getting involved on any level, please email us and we'll stick your email address on a special list for the arms trade stuff, although major events will still be advertised in the usual ways.
Next event - BAE Systems AGM - Wednesday 9th may - Elizabeth Conference Centre, London
For more information, and more events visit the webpage here
Global Health Day and Birthday Party
Medsin's 10th birthday party is coming up on the 12th May, and preceding this is a Global Health Day. The theme for this half day conference is 'Health as a Foreign Policy'. The afternoon will be divided into 3 sessions:
- An Introduction to Health as a Foreign Policy
- Global Security and Health
- Conflict and Health
The event will be held at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. For more information on this event click here
Follow up from a GHC workshop
There was a workshop run at the Global Health Conference on Palestine and Israel and there was a lot of interest at the time in finding out more about the social and political issues and perhaps even visiting Palestine. The coordinator of the workshop wishes to pass on this website for people interested in following up this workshop with more information.
International News and Events
Tobacco Campaign
Do you want to run a tobacco campaign with a big budget?
From November 2005 to May 2006, the European Youth Forum ran the project "Young People: For a Life without Tobacco?" involving 14 student organisations in 14 different countries.
It culminated in two large conferences, out of which was born the Youth Manifesto on Tobacco.
The project was funded through the European Commission and carried out with the assistance of PR-agencies in all Member States. To follow-up of the project, the European Commission has offered a larger focus and more funding for activities of youth organisations during 2007.
If you are interested in helping to organise continued work on this project, or in being part of a Contact Group facilitating, please contact Sarah
Global Development Course
The 12th Global Development course will be held from 4th to the 16th June at the University of London Union in Mallet Street, WC1.
Over the last 4 years over 200 people have taken part in this short, very intensive and effective introduction to the issues that confront the Third World. The course consists of a total of 12 session of 2 hours each, concentrating in turn on finance, health, education, international aid and the UN system, trade, migration and refugees, and so on.
Personnel from all the major development agencies, including OXFAM, ActionAid, Save the Children Fund, CAFOD, Christian Aid, WaterAid, the House of Commons, and many others have attended over the years. It has also been attended by people contemplating a higher degree in one of the relevant fields of work and from teachers of geography and economics. The speakers are all highly qualified with current fieldwork experience.
If you think you may be interested in attending, please visit the website
Last updated on Tuesday 08 May 2007 at 14:15.
